Hamilton, William John: Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia: with some account of their antiquities and geology ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1842)

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[Chap. xxxi.

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{Walk at Brythra.]

terraces and platforms, commanding a magnificent view of
the surrounding country.

A remarkable feature in these ruins is the Acropolis,
a mass of red trachyte, which has been erupted in the cen-
tre of the plain, and is within two hundred yards of the
sea-shore. Although perfectly detached, it is a portion of
the same formation as that on which the northern extremity
of the wall terminates. The remains of a capacious theatre
are still visible on its north side, excavated in the solid
rock, while the summit is crowned with the remains of a
castle, apparently Byzantine, the principal materials of
which have been derived from the adjacent theatre. Most
of the seats of the cavea are gone, except in the lines of
the radii, seven in number, where they are nearly perfect,
and show the deep-cut staircases between the cunei, which
led to the upper rows. The outer wall of the scena is still
standing, forming part of, or connected with that which
served as an inner fortification round the Acropolis, and
can be traced both to the cast and west. On the summit of
the hill, and in the wall of the castle, were many frag-